Asbury Place at Maryville

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our nursing rating assesses many factors, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually fared better than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most critical for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was its long-term care grade, where it was given a grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 90.93851 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This pulled this nursing home's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This usually suggests that a poor track record has been an issue for several years.